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The night's journey could begin one of three ways. On this evening, it starts at Yorkdale subway station, where you take in the illuminated beauty of Michael Hayden's Arc en Ciel before boarding a train to head downtown. You stroll along the streets, eventually winding up on Yonge Street. Passing on buying a slice from any of the pizza joints south of Gerrard, you soak up the neon lights of record store giants A&A and Sam the Record Man. Another night, you take a similar journey from the comfort of a car, passing several of the same sights and ponder as you listen to the jazzy background music if you should check out that early Coen Brothers movie playing at the Rio.

At five minutes to 10 p.m. tonight, we'll hear the following words: "Ladies and gentlemen. Please clear the runway and take your seats. The show is about to begin." And sure, those words might be in our heads, burned there by so many megaphone announcements in the tents. But we'll hear them and be a tiny bit more excited, even if none of it is real—just reality.

When we think of “fashion” and “reality”—well, of late, we’d rather not. It’s one thing on television, but on the shopping streets, the reality is something grimmer.